PLATFORM UPDATE · OCTOBER 7, 2026
Rheumatology is rarely simple. A symptom may look ordinary until one detail changes the entire picture. A diagnosis may be correct yet poorly understood. A treatment decision may depend as much on context, timing, and uncertainty as on a guideline.
That is the idea behind Rheumatology in Perspective — by Olga Goodman, MD, a physician-authored RheumaView publication created for patients, professionals, and readers who want to understand not only what rheumatology says, but how rheumatology is thought through.
Not another disease encyclopedia
The publication is deliberately selective. It does not try to become “everything about rheumatology.” It focuses on the cases, questions, explanations, clinical decisions, and uncertainties worth looking at more closely — then connects them through deeper reading, visual learning, quizzes, and original interactive experiences.
For patients and caregivers
- Patient Essentials and deeper disease guides
- Practical explanations of symptoms, testing, imaging, and treatment
- Interactive stories, quizzes, and preparation tools
- Patient material in English, Russian, Spanish, and Polish
For healthcare professionals
- Clinical reasoning and diagnostic crossroads
- Professional Essentials and deep-dive collections
- Clinical Challenge cases and rheumatic emergencies
- Imaging, quizzes, simulations, and decision-based learning
The distinctive layer: participation
Some of the most unusual parts of the site are the Interactive Journeys: longitudinal patient stories and professional simulations in which the reader moves through a clinical narrative, makes decisions, and sees what changes next. Several are open demos.
Alongside them are physician-authored essays and short reads about judgment, uncertainty, communication, mistakes, expectations, and the parts of medicine that do not fit neatly into an algorithm.
Rheumatology, in depth. In perspective.